So as my exam results come trickling in (VERY slowly) I am again struck by the differences between this system and the American one.
The first shock is that anything between 100% and 70% is an A (I still can't quite wrap my mind around that). Another strange difference is that 40% is a passing grade. This might seem strange for anyone who is used to the American system but they do grade much harder here (makes sense doesn't it when a 50 is a B). This leads to strange phenomena like finding that the highest grade anyone got on your exam was a 74% (and it was multiple choice).
By far the most confusing thing is seeing that it is possible to get a 13% on an exam, I am not even sure how that works, that is a worse percentage than chance could account for so that poor person actually would have done better if they had done the answer sheet blindly, without reading the questions and just guessed. I really want to know how something like that comes to pass, was it on purpose? Or did they take the wrong exam? Did they have a terrible case of brain freeze? What?
Off to ponder that one for a while
Love ya!
Wow that is quite the different system! Must feel like such a huge change from Hopkins. I thought of you in my physics class today--good times we had with Swannie way back when. Hope all is well!
ReplyDeleteYeah it is very different! Oh Swannie--I sure am glad to be out of that class.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how is your senior year going? Made any college choices yet?